A member loyal to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), also known as ISIS, waves an ISIL flag in Raqqa, Syria, on June 29, 2014.Stringer . Reuters file
NBC: Amid planned Syria withdrawal, U.S. scrambling to find places to send ISIS detainees
The options under review include sending the most dangerous fighters to the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, officials say.
President Trump's surprise announcement that he was pulling the U.S. military out of Syria came with no plan in place for what to do about more than 790 imprisoned ISIS fighters and their families. Now his administration is in a frantic search for solutions, including a renewed look at sending the most dangerous fighters to Guantanamo Bay, U.S. and congressional officials tell NBC News.
The scramble has been complicated by the fact that the timeline for the planned U.S. withdrawal keeps evolving, with Trump and his aides giving shifting descriptions of how fast the troops are leaving. The ISIS detainees are being held in Syria by U.S.-backed Kurdish forces, who have warned they may have to let the ISIS fighters go if a feared onslaught by Turkish forces occurs.
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WNU Editor: This is how Turkey is sabotaging U.S. withdrawal plans. If the U.S. leaves and Turkey launches an offensive against the Kurds, the Kurds will not have the resources to keep these prisoners detained. They will probably be released to cause God only knows what havoc.
